216 MR. 6. A. BOtrLBXGBE ON THE [Feb. 2, 



moderately long, poiuted. Lower eyelid with an undivided trans- 

 parent disk. jVostril pierced in the centre of the nasal ; no 

 supranasal ; frontonasal broader than long, forming a suture with 

 the rostral and with the frontal ; praefrontals small ; frontal a 

 little longer than the frontoparietal, in contact with the first and 

 second supraoculars ; four supraoculars, first and fourth longest ; 

 seven to nine supraciliaries ; frontoparietal single ; interparietal 

 distinct ; parietals forming a suture behind the interparietal ; two or 

 three pairs of nuchals; fourth and fifth or fifth and sixth upper 

 labials largest and below the eye. Ear concealed under the scales, 

 but indicated by a depression. 22 smooth scales round the middle 

 of the body, those of the two vertebral series much broader than 

 the others. A pair of enlarged prseanals. The adpressed limbs 

 fail to meet, meet, or slightly overlap. Digits moderately long, 

 strongly compressed distally ; subdigital lamellae smooth, 18 to 2-5 

 under the fourth toe. Tail once and a half as long as head and 

 body. Yellowish, with four black stripes, the median pair ex- 

 tending to the supraoculars, the lateral to the eyes ; or dark brown 

 with a golden or silvery vertebral stripe commencing from the 

 snout and a more or less distinct light dorso-lateral stripe ; or pale 

 bronzy, with a lighter black-edged stripe along each side of the 

 back ; digits with brown cross-bars ; whitish beneath, with or 

 without brown longitudinal lines running between the series of 

 scales ; throat sometimes dark brown. 



mm. 



Total length 92 



Head 10 



Width of head 6 



Body 39 



Fore lunb 12 



Hind limb 16 



Tail (reproduced) 43 



Ten specimens : wood near Dumoga besar ; Kema ; Buol ; 

 Bungi ; Sosso ; Macassar. 



Siao (Sangir Is.), Manado (Meyer). 1 suspect the specimen from 

 Gorontalo, referred by Peters to L. quadriuittatum, will prove to 

 belong to this species. 



L. quadrivittatum (with 18 rows of scales) is now represented in 

 the British Museum by two specimens from Sandakan, North 

 Borneo, presented by Mi-. Douglas Cator and Grovernor C. V. 

 Creagh. 



35. Tbopidophobus geati, Gthr, 



Two specimens : Kingdom of Luhu, C. Celebes. 

 Luhu (^Weber). 



DlBAMID^i;. 



36. DlBAilDS irOT-E-GUINE.!, D. & B. 



Six specimens : Tomohon and Eurukan. 

 Luhu (Weber). 



